Friday, December 14, 2007

Happy Pajama Day!


Today the staff and students celebrated Pajama Day! We read and watched Polar Express in our pajamas. This celebration is part of our Reading Incentive program. We are reading our way to Australia this year. This month we stopped at the Kingman Reef. Next month we will be stopping at Kiritmati Island. The kids had a great day today!

Friday, December 7, 2007

Week of December 3rd - 7th



First Grade


Reading and Language Arts:
New words this week include: want, red, ride, white
Review words include: find, here, jump, look, new, eat, please, up, big, this, two, red, play, help, can, blue, came, is, did, make, for,to, me, in, no, yes, am, it, one, have, are, we, and, on, not, I, see, like, on, go, my, the, cat, at. The boys are continuing to read level 3 and 4 readers. This week we read two stories from our reading anthologies: Zack and his friends and Two Best Friends.


Spelling:
The boys did great on their tests this week.
Words for next week include: up, but, fun, run, us, cut, jump, plum


Math:
We started our new unit on geometry this week. We learned about cubes, cylinders, cones, and spheres. Try to find some examples of these shapes at home.



Second Grade


Reading and Language Arts:
This week we were working on writing friendly letters for our Reading/Writing workshop unit. We wrote letters to friends and Santa. The boys worked really hard on their letters and we hope Santa writes back soon.

Spelling:
The boys worked hard on their spelling words this week. Words for next week include: train, tray, mail, play, trail, pay, sail, hay, nail, rain, they, great, stay, day


Math:
We continued to add two digit numbers with and without regrouping. We will also be looking at patterns when we add.



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December 14th – Pajama Day